Event: The London Business School Media Summit

London Business School’s student-run Media Club is prepping for the London Media Summit, to be held on 24th November. This year LBS has an interesting lineup of some of London’s top Media community members. The Summit is entitled “The Great…

Mo’Minis Launches Mobile Game Development Platform

Exciting day for Israel based Mo’minis: the company has launched its new website offering an DYI mobile game studio and announcing GameCast #1 – a rapid mobile games creation contest. The company partnered with Sun Microsystems and Orange Israel in…

Contrust and Kaltura in Le Web 08 Finals

For the fifth year, Loïc Le Meur’s Paris-based Internet conference Le Web 08 will choose the most promising online ventures. Last year, two Israeli firms (Ply Media and GHost) snatched two out of the top spots. This year, among the…

The Israeli Founder of Guitar Hero and Rock Band

The video game industry was revolutionized by RockBand and Guitar Hero, the games that get you as close as possible to playing in a virtual rock band even if you never touched a music instrument. Behind these two masterpieces is…

The First iPhone Music Instrument: Ocarina

Smule, the people that invented the Sonic lighter application for the iPhone, step it up a notch with Ocarina, the first networked music instrument for the iPhone. For only $0.99 cents, you  will be able to enjoy two major features…

BitTorrent: how to kill a good idea?

San Francisco based BitTorrent, the company that could have revolutionized P2P sharing online, is falling apart. The CEO and president left and the company has fired ALL of its employees in San Francisco, says PaidContent. With $46 million in funding…

Weekend Roundup: iSkoot, JewBerry, Ntrig and more layoffs

“If at first the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it”  – Albert Einstein In the center of our attention this week stood the US elections, leaving little space for Israeli startup headlines. Here’s a roundup of…

SportVu and Virzt Powered CNN’s Hologram

CNN.com surprised a week ago with a record level of traffic during election day. 27 million unique users flocked to CNN on November 4th, driving 276 million page views (!), five times the regular traffic volume. One of the drivers,…

How to buy equipment from closing companies?

Credit crunch is causing lots of startups to close their doors. As sad as it is, it raises the question: what happens to the equipment when a startup dies? Israel’s Peribanu (also known as Hand2Hand) is a second hand marketplace…

Boxee, My6Sense and Didiom: What about compatibility?

I was very impressed with each of these three Israeli startups when I got the invitation to test them. Even though Boxee, My6sense and Didiom are very different from one another, I’ve had compatibility issues with all of them. In…